Package delivery giant UPS is about to become a giant employer in Palmer Township. Starting in September or October, UPS will be looking to hire about 900 people for its new “peak season hub” at 1620 Van Buren Road in 33 Logistics Park, company spokeswoman Kim Krebs said late Tuesday. The available...

What can brown do for you? Apparently, it can fill a 1 million-square-foot warehouse along Route 33 in Palmer Township. Package delivery giant UPS has signed a lease for the massive building being completed at 1620 Van Buren Road in 33 Logistics Park, company spokeswoman Kim Krebs confirmed. While...

HIGHRIDGE — While flat, rectangular robots, like red-eyed insects, scurried about within their gray metal hives, a handful of state and local officials took their seats nearby. Then, a small industrial army, uniformly sporting dark blue company T-shirts, gathered behind them. Then, Ron Gilbert,...

Real estate investment companies based in Baltimore and Boston are teaming up to build an industrial park along Route 309 just north of Quakertown. A joint venture between MRP Industrial of Baltimore and Cabot Properties of Boston will break ground this summer on two buildings totaling more than...

Upper Macungie Township’s landscape, dominated by large-footprint warehouses, distribution centers and manufacturing facilities that draw heavy truck traffic and residents’ criticism, has taken a step toward a more diverse landscape in two of its prized zoning districts. Thanks to a recently passed...

The former Ingersoll Rand property in Warren County, N.J., which has long been slated for warehouse development, is now under the control of a Chicago firm with similar plans for the site. Commercial real estate giant CBRE on Thursday announced Bridge Development Partners has closed on its $43...

A lot of terms are thrown around in warehouse development. For one, there’s big-box buildings, typically at least 300,000 square feet with 28-foot ceilings or taller. The more cynical might dub them hollow shells that consume farmland. But here’s a new name: The Cubes. That’s the name — officially...

A developer in South Whitehall Township is seeking approval to combine nine lots on roughly 73 acres in an effort to build two warehouses on the land. The property is near the Banko Beverages warehouse at 5001 Crackersport Road. The Black Creek Group will present a sketch plan for conditional use...

The BMW parts warehouse in Lower Nazareth Township will expand to more than 1.2 million square feet after getting approvals this week from the township. The Board of Supervisors on Wednesday approved an addition of 348,000 square feet to the distribution warehouse at Prologis Park 33. The existing...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. No, not whatever snow remains on the ground following Saturday’s little burst of winter weather. But yes, that flurry of mail vehicles from the U.S. Postal Service, big brown trucks from UPS and white vehicles from FedEx already lining the streets and...

Mark Vasilantone couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed in 2015 when he surveyed the initial leads on sites for a new manufacturing facility. His company, Vastex International Inc., had grown from a few thousand square feet of leased space in East Allentown in the late 1990s to a 23,000 square-feet...